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Agile Initiative Science-to-Policy Project Fund
With additional funding from NERC, the Agile Initiative Science-to-Policy Project Fund will award 4-5 grants of £20,000-£30,000 to researchers at the University of Oxford. These projects must focus on topics that are relevant to Agile’s mission and the NERC forward look for environmental science.
19 November 2025 -
Rainforests, nature and biodiversity at COP30
Agile is at COP30 in Brazil represented by Dr Erika Berenguer, Dr Aline Sotteroni and Professor Nathalie Seddon.
14 November 2025 -
Connecting practitioners and researchers
This event brought researchers into conversation with practitioners to discuss emerging findings from several Agile Sprints and their practical implications for farming and nature recovery.
8 October 2025
Explore sprints
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How can we assess the macroeconomic and inequality impacts of Carbon Budgets?
This Sprint will be working directly with DESNZ in advance of the Seventh Carbon Budget, and aims to develop new modelling approaches to fill macroeconomic and distributional analysis evidence gaps.
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How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?
This Sprint will bring together Oxford’s interdisciplinary expertise with the insights of practitioners, policymakers and young people to deliver the Oxford Net Zero Education Framework.
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How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?
This Sprint will offer insights to strengthen environmental governance and support both national and global sustainability targets.
Outputs
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Record burning of Amazonian flooded forests
MoreThis policy brief (available in English and Portugues) provides a detailed examination of the surge in fires affecting Amazonian flooded forests
Associated Sprint: How can we fireproof the Amazon?
Associated SDGs: 11 Sustainable cities and communities, 13 Climate action, 15 Life on land
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Workshop Report: Nature-based programmes for mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools
MoreThis Sprint report is about the deliberative policy action (DPA) workshop held in February 2025 which covered the values and challenges in implementing and evaluating nature-based programmes (NbPs) aimed at addressing mental health and wellbeing (MHWB) in secondary schools.
Associated Sprint: Is “nature” a policy solution to mental health in schools?
Associated SDGs: 11 Sustainable cities and communities, 13 Climate action, 3 Good health and well-being, 4 Quality education
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Delivering win-wins from economic development and nature recovery
MoreA briefing aimed at parliamentarians and their advisors on how England can fulfil ambitious targets for both economic growth and nature recovery.
Associated Sprint: How can we assess the macroeconomic and inequality impacts of Carbon Budgets?
Associated SDGs: 10 Reduced inequalities, 13 Climate action, 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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A globally influential area-condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity
MoreIn this paper, the authors highlight the need to incorporate factors beyond habitat type and condition into site evaluations, and to complement metric use with species-based surveys.
Associated Sprint: How do we account for biodiversity?
Associated SDGs: 11 Sustainable cities and communities, 14 Life below water, 15 Life on land
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